EIZO Oceania announce that the highly touted ColorEdge CG301W has arrived and is particulary suitable for wide format printers.
Boasting a wide colour gamut, 12-bit hardware calibration, and picture-by-picture, the new ColorEdge CG301W is ideal for a wide range of professional graphics applications such as digital photography, digital video and soft proofing. 
The ColorEdge CG301W reproduces a full 97% of the Adobe RGB 1998 colour gamut - which encompasses the majority of colour spaces used in commercial printing.
EIZO calibrates each and every CG301W at its factory in Japan by measuring every
tone from 0 – 255 to produce a gamma curve of 2.2. This in itself is a great feature, when compared to most LCD manufacturers who measure just a few tones across the entire gamma range. Furthermore, for reliable colour output on the customer side, the CG301W offers hardware calibration. Thus, the monitor itself is calibrated rather than the computer’s graphics board as is the case with software calibration. This ensures no colour tones are lost in the calibration process, which eliminates banding.
EIZO’s ColorNavigator calibration software is bundled with the CG301W and allows for setting the values for brightness, white point, and gamma. ColorNavigator works with a measurement device to directly utilize the monitor’s 12-bit look-up table for hardware calibration in less than five minutes. When calibration is complete the settings can be saved as an ICC profile.
ColorNavigator can also be used to emulate a colour space or colour characteristics of another monitor. This means the CG301W can accurately reproduce how colour is displayed in the narrower sRGB colour space which is often used for taking photographs, or colour matching with other devices. The majority of other wide gamut monitors can not do this.
The native resolution is 2560 × 1600 (16:10 aspect ratio). Dual DVI-D inputs are included for connecting to two PCs. A picture-by-picture function divides the screen into two equal halves, essentially offering two 1200 × 1600 monitors with no center bezel. Input from two different computers such as a Windows and a Macintosh can be displayed which makes it possible to work on two tasks simultaneously without having to toggle back and forth.
One input supports dual link for displaying images up to the monitor’s native resolution of 2560 × 1600, and the other input is single link for images up to 1920 × 1200. The single link input supports high bandwidth digital content protection (HDCP) for viewing of content from HDCP-equipped devices.
The Coloredge CG301W comes equipped with EIZO’s latest ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit). The ASIC has a 12-bit look-up table with a total colour palette of 68.1 billion colours from which the most appropriate 16.7 million are selected. It also features 16-bit internal processing for smooth display of grayscale tones, which brings out details, especially in dark areas of an image. Furthermore, the ASIC includes a Digital Uniformity Equalizer function that corrects the brightness and chroma uniformity errors that are characteristic of LCD panels and cause an object to appear brighter and more saturated in the center of the screen than along the edges.
Additional Features
- 250 cd/m² brightness
- 850:1 contrast ratio
- 178° horizontal/vertical viewing angles.
- 6 ms midtone response for smooth playback of moving images.
- 90° pivot for portrait mode (great for proofing wedding portraits and newspaper)
- Scaling function for viewing resolutions less than the native resolution in full screen mode. The image can then be smoothed or sharpened in five increments.
- Backlight sensor to stabilize brightness fluctuations within minutes of startup or coming out of power save mode.
- USB 2.0 hub with one upstream and two downstream ports.
- Five-year warranty (2.)
1) The figures for brightness and contrast ratio are subject to change before mass production.
2) The warranty period of the LCD panel and backlight is limited to three years from the date of purchase.
Specifications are temporary and subject to change before mass production.
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